Church and Tower of Three Saints, Yassy, Modavia, July 19, 1837
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory chine laid down on buff wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.3 × 26.9 cm (7 5/8 × 10 5/8 in.); Primary support: 19.4 × 26.9 cm (7 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.); Secondary support: 34.2 × 45.4 cm (13 1/2 × 17 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
48574
About the Artist
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet · 1804–1860
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804–1860) was born in Paris and displayed an early aptitude for drawing, though his initial apprenticeship was to a wood turner. He pursued art through evening classes and, at age eighteen, joined the workshop of Cabanel as a porcelain painter, where he met Rudor, who taught him lithography. Raffet studied under Nicolas Toussaint Charlet from 1824 to 1829 and completed...